Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-07-22

\ special dispatch from Washington
to the Chicago Intcr-Ocean, dated
July lith, says:
Postmaster Pearson spent all day to
day cloSetcd with Postmaster General
Villas and Judge Bryant, going over
manuscript for the new postal laws
and regulations. Three months ago
the Postmaster General and his old
partner, Bryant undertook the revision
of all the laws now on the statute
books relating to the postal service.
The old revision was over ten years
old and poor one ut that at was
edited with a shovel" said Judge
BRYANT. Besides the printed edition
was exhausted and over 5000 post
masters in the country had never seen
copy, and were running their offices
without any definite general instruc-
tionS to refer to. Fifteen years ago
the postmaster general and his partner
edited the reports of the Wisconsin
supreme court decisions down to the
22d volume Their annotationS have
always been highly praised by the Wis
consin bar. Judge Bryant is also the
author of an excellent justices manual
for his state. 80 to both LAWYERS it
was more a legal diversion than task
to revise the postal laws. They tore
the old book To pieces and classified
everything anew on comprehensive,
well articulated pan, and dividing up
the subjects went to work writing and
debating the new volume. 1t is safe
To say the new postal laws We're never
So well arranged or edited before The
whole book has gone through the
hands of the postmaster general, and
hundreds of pages have been wholly
rewritten in his large round hand,
which the printers at the government
printing office say is the most business
like that comes to their hook Mr.
Pearson went over the chapters per
tanning To the international postal ser
vice and those on distribution in the
large cities, and he found little to criti-
else in arrangement or subject matter
The new laws will not be published
before fall, and the edition will prob
ably be 100000 to start with
fhe revision and codifcation of the
postal laws and regulations is an inn
portant work; and being done in a
thorough and able manner, will result
IN great benefit to the postal service,
and 10 the country in general. The
publication of the new volume will
be in keeping with the many other inn
portant reforms and improvements
made IN the post office department
since a Wisconsin democrat became
postmastet general. The attempts of
the Pacific mail robbers to hold up the
government for an annual haul of
100000 was successfully resisted:
star route contractors no longer receive
large sums for pretending to "expe-
dite " the service; the privileges of free
delivery have been extended to large
number of cities; the number of
money order offices has been largely
increased, and the public are better
served in many ways; while improved
business methods have been intro
duced into the whole service, which
under decreased rate of postage and
money order fees has been made
almost self sustaining. In fact, under
Col. Villas the efficiency of every
branch of the post office department
has been increased; and this increased
efficiency is so plainly marked that he
is receiving the commentator of the
leading business men throughout the
country regardless of their political
proclivities.